US20110186779A1 - Photovoltaic module recycling - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates generally to a method for reclaiming materials used in the manufacture of photovoltaic modules.
- cadmium telluride in photovoltaic modules has increased due to the need to generate renewable, non-polluting, and low cost electricity as an alternative to fossil fuels.
- cadmium, cadmium compounds, and tellurium used in the manufacture of thin-film cadmium telluride photovoltaic modules have hazardous toxicological properties, end-of-life disposal of the photovoltaic modules has become a concern.
- the '779 patent discloses a method of reclaiming a metallic semiconductor material from a non-metallic substrate by crushing the material-coated substrate into a plurality of pieces, and disposing the plurality of pieces in an acidic solution to dissolve the metallic semiconductor material. The plurality of pieces is then removed from the solution and a precipitation agent is added to the acidic solution to precipitate out the metallic materials, thereby recovering the metallic material.
- a method for reclaiming a semiconductor material from a photovoltaic module comprises the steps of providing at least one photovoltaic module including a glass substrate having a semiconductor material disposed thereon; reducing the photovoltaic module to a plurality of glass particles having the semiconductor material disposed thereon by introducing a source of energy thereto; separating the semiconductor material from the plurality of glass particles to obtain semiconductor particles; and pyrometallurgically refining the semiconductor particles and the fine glass particles.
- a method for reclaiming a semiconductor material from a photovoltaic module comprises the steps of providing at least one multi-layer photovoltaic module including a glass substrate having a semiconductor material disposed thereon; delaminating the photovoltaic module with pyrolysis using a heated inert gas to separate glass layers having a semiconductor coating from non-glass layers; reducing the glass layers to a plurality of glass particles having the semiconductor material disposed thereon by introducing a source of energy thereto; separating the semiconductor material from the plurality of glass particles to obtain semiconductor particles; and pyrometallurgically refining the semiconductor particles and the fine glass particles.
- a method for reclaiming a semiconductor material from a photovoltaic module comprises the steps of providing at least one photovoltaic module including a glass substrate having a semiconductor material disposed thereon; reducing the photovoltaic module to a plurality of semiconductor coated glass particles by introducing a source of energy thereto, wherein the source of energy is one of thermal energy, acoustic energy, and a combination of the foregoing; separating the semiconductor material from the plurality of glass particles to obtain semiconductor particles; and pyrometallurgically refining the semiconductor particles and the fine glass particles.
- FIG. 1 is a flow diagram illustrating a method of reclaiming materials used in the manufacture of thin-film photovoltaic modules according to an embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 2 is a flow diagram illustrating a method of reclaiming materials used in the manufacture of multi-layer thin-film photovoltaic modules according to another embodiment of the invention.
- the module may be a thin-film semiconductor module and may have any number of layers and any conventional material may be used to form the layers, as desired.
- the module may include an outer layer comprising glass overlaid by and adhered to an ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) layer.
- EVA ethylene-vinyl acetate
- the glass may be a soda-lime glass, typically having a low-E coating that is optically transparent and electrically conductive.
- An example of such glass is produced by Pilkington Glass Co. and is designated as TEC-15.
- a metal contact layer may be adhered to and overlay the EVA layer.
- a first semiconductor layer comprising cadmium telluride (CdTe) may adhere to and overlay the metal contact layer.
- a second semiconductor later comprising cadmium sulfide (CdS) may be adhered to and overlay the CdTe layer.
- a metallic layer of tin oxide doped with fluorine (SnO 2 :F) may be adhered to and overlay the CdS layer, and a second outer layer comprising glass may be adhered to and overlay the SnO 2 :F (TEC-15) layer.
- the outer layers of the module may also be formed from other materials such as a metal, a wood, and a plastic, for example.
- the semiconductor layers may comprise barium, cadmium, lead, mercury, selenium, silver, tellurium, gold, cadmium sulfide, cadmium telluride and combinations thereof, for example, as desired.
- the module may also be a copper-indium-gallium-diselenide module, a cadmium sulfide/copper-indium-selenium alloy module, an amorphous silicon or thin-film polycrystalline silicon module, and a zinc oxide sulfide hydroxide/copper-indium-gallium-diselenide module.
- the method described herein may also be used for a cathode ray tube, lead acid battery casing, a substrate having lead paint thereon, a fluorescent lamp, glass mirrors, a semiconductor conductor material on a glass substrate, and plasma flat panel displays to recover a metallic material from a non-metallic, such as glass, substrate.
- the process described herein utilizes a photovoltaic module having a semiconductor material disposed on a glass layer. It is understood that the module could include any material formed on any layer and any number of layers, as described herein.
- End-of-life photovoltaic modules and/or manufactured modules that are off-specification are provided for recycling using the process described herein.
- the modules are then broken into a plurality of glass particles having the semiconductor material disposed thereon.
- the plurality of glass particles includes glass collets and glass particles smaller than the glass collets, referred to herein as fine glass particles.
- glass cullet is pieces of glass between about 2 mesh and about 70 mesh, while fine glass particles are particles of glass smaller than about 70 mesh.
- the particle size reduction of the module may be performed by providing a source of energy on or against the pyrolized module, such as thermal energy and acoustic energy, for example.
- the source of energy may include a flow of steam directed against the module, a flow of liquid nitrogen directed onto the module, a flow of water at a desired temperature directed against the module, a high intensity acoustic energy directed at the module and adapted to break the module, and a combination of the aforementioned sources of energy. It is understood that the module may be subjected to any source of energy to effect particle size reduction that does not require direct mechanical grinding, milling, or shredding. The particle size reduction step may occur in a furnace or in another suitable vessel, as desired.
- the semiconductor material coated on the plurality of glass particles is separated therefrom by an abrasive media, a chemical surfactant, or a combination thereof.
- the step of using an abrasive also known as a high intensity attrition step, is adapted to separate the semiconductor material from the glass cutlet without etching the resulting semiconductor material particles.
- the separation step may occur in the same vessel that the particle size reduction was performed or the separation step may occur in another suitable vessel, as desired.
- the fine glass particles and the semiconductor material particles that may be stuck to the glass cullet are removed therefrom by rinsing the glass cullet, fine glass particles, and the semiconductor material particles with one of water, a surfactant, a combination thereof, and any other suitable washing material.
- a screen is utilized to separate the glass cullet, the semiconductor material particles, and the fine glass particles from any residual liquid used during the separation step and the washing step.
- the glass cullet may be separated from the semiconductor material particles and fine glass particles by another, appropriately sized screen.
- the screens may be vibratory screens, as desired. It is understood that any conventional solid particle separation device may be used.
- the fine glass particles and the semiconductor material particles are then transferred to another vessel for pyrometallurgical refining.
- the glass cullet are transferred to another vessel and recycled with a float glass recycling process or the like.
- substantially all of the semiconductor material and the semiconductor particles are in a solid phase or a gas phase, and substantially none of the semiconductor material is in a liquid phase.
- the photovoltaic module has multiple layers, such as a non-glass layer and/or a contact layer, for example, additional steps are required to recycle a semiconductor material from the module.
- the module Before the module is reduced to a plurality of particles, the module is transferred to a furnace for delamination thereof with pyrolysis using a heated inert gas such as oxygen, nitrogen, and argon, for example.
- the heat energy generated in the furnace may be recovered in a waste heat recovery unit and reused.
- the recycled heat energy may be reused in subsequent delamination steps, for example.
- the non-glass layers may be separated from the pyrolized glass having the semiconductor material disposed thereon, as desired.
- the remaining steps of the recycling process are similar to those described above with respect to the process illustrated in FIG. 1 .
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